"The Importance and Opportunity of Building Solutions for Global Problems" with Bill Tai, Partner Emeritus of Charles River Venture and Richard Irving, Founder and Managing Partner of Pond Venture Partners, and Venture Advisor to Samsung.
Bill Tai, Partner Emeritus, Charles River Venture
Bill Tai has been funding startups as a Venture Capitalist since 1991 and has had 22 of his startups become listed companies.
Originally trained as a chip designer, he joined LSI Logic, a seminal Silicon Valley startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor after earning a BSEE with Honors from University of Illinois. After an MBA at Harvard he was issued Badge #A001 during the formation of TSMC (NYSE:TSM), now among the world’s 9 most valuable companies (~$400 Billion market value as of 2020).
He co-founded Treasure Data (acquired by ARM/Softbank) as Chairman and is among the first investors in Canva, Color Genomics, Safety Culture, Tweetdeck/Twitter, Wish.com and Zoom Video, where he was the first backer to commit at the company's formation.
He was Founding Chairman & CEO of iAsiaWorks (IPO via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley) and Founding Chairman of IPinfusion (Tokyo:4813). He has served as Board Director of 8 publicly listed companies (AWRD EGHT HUT8 IAWK NPIX TMTA TUNE and IMGO) that grew from startups he funded at their formative stages. He has served on the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Committee and is an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.
He is co-founder of ACTAI Global a 501(c)3 community of Athletes Conservationists Technologists Artists & Innovators supporting 1) environmental conservation and 2) economic empowerment via entrepreneurship.
He is creator or cofounder of the worldwide startup competition www.ExtremeTechChallenge.org, the annual www.NeckerBlockchainSummit.com and the annual www.WestTechFest.com, a thousand person technology festival held annually in Perth Western Australia where he is an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University focused on “innovation and economic development”.
Richard Irving, Founder and Managing Partner, Pond Venture Partners, and Venture Advisor to Samsung
Based in Silicon Valley, Richard Irving co-founded Pond Venture Partners in 1997 and bring over 30 years' experience in venture capital, corporate management, marketing and engineering with start-ups in US, Israel, UK, Australia, France, Ireland, Spain, & China. I have driven over $3B of value creation mainly from initial startup & have 15 years tech operating experience including full P&L responsibility.
His expertise includes hardware, software, semiconductors, water, AgTech, sustainability, wireless, and digital health.
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